It was with very glad ears that we received the news last month that Italian heavyweights Ufomammut are releasing a new album, Ecate, on March 30 via Neurot. It's with even more pleased, and now frayed-edged, cochleas that we present to you the swirling cauldron of garbled incantation, mutilated screams, canal-dredger riffing and all-round uncompromising heaviness that is album centrepiece 'Temple' - give it a spin above, and take a look at the band's upcoming dates (where all shows apart from Stuttgart and Maryland Death Fest are with Conan) below:

APRIL
Sun 19 - Glazart, Paris, France
Tue 21 - Forum, Bielefeld, Germany
Wed 22 - Schlachthof, Wiesbaden, Germany
Thu 23 - Feierwerk, Munich, Germany
Fri 24 - Desertfest, Berlin, Germany
Sat 25 - AB, Brussels, Belgium
Sun 26 - Desertfest, London
Tue 28 - Vortex, Siegen, Germany
Wed 29 - Kellerclub, Stuttgart, Germany

MAY
Thu 21 - Maryland Death Fest, Baltimore, MD